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AFTER POSTMODERNISM: AMERICAN STUDIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY
December 17-19, 2020
EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: 06 MARCH 2020
The presence of science fiction in university classrooms is by now no longer shocking; the genre has become a mainstay not only in literature and philosophy classrooms but also in STEM fields, as its predictions and extrapolations pose memorable and concrete case studies to explore the societal and ethical implications of technological innovation, as well as interesting practical engineering problems to try to solve with real-world science.
Feminist Pedagogies: A Graduate Student Conference
Organization: UC Santa Barbarba's Women's Center and Feminist Studies Department
Conact: Jamiee Cook - jcook@ucsb.edu
Submission Process: Please submit your abstracts via tinyurl.com/feministpedagogies
CFP:
We are seeking panelist proposals for the accepted Children’s Literature Association (ChLA 2020) conference panel “Sustaining Black Lives: Ecological Imaginaries in African American Books for Young Readers.” The ChLA 2020 theme “Sustainability Through Story: Eco-Justice, Children's Literature, and Childhood” invites “an expansive array of interdisciplinary topics on the cultural, political, historical, and contemporary impact of children’s literature in relationship to the environment.” This panel seeks papers that correlates race and gender with Black sustainability issues like environmental inequity and global migration.
Rapunzel lowers her plaited hair 20 cubits deep, so that her prince can climb into her hermetically sealed tower. Donald Trump’s signature quiff – a piece of interwoven fabric with no evident beginning and end – is treated as a metaphor for his relationship to truth and politics. Samson defeats the Philistines oppressing the Israelites in the Old Testament with his superhuman strength: the origin of his invincibility lies in the vigour of his hair as long as it is not cut.
Calling for ALA paper proposals on Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge's poetry and multi-media poetics. The American Literature Association meets in San Diego this year over Memorial Day weekend. Please respond ASAP with ideas if you are interested, as the proposal deadline is soon.
Supporting the concept of interdisciplinarity we welcome submissions in different academic disciplines, especially in:
Management, Economics, Business, Marketing, Health Care, Climate Change, Peace Studies, Environment, Law, Social Work, Sociology, Psychology, History, Geography, Geology, Education, Politics, Engineering, Linguistics, Religion, History and Gender Studies.
• Name and email of at least 1 suggested reviewer (required). The suggested reviewer must not have conflict of interest.
• All papers should be sent via conference emails: contact@mforumbarcelona.net and mforumbarcelona@yahoo.com
Call for Essays: Film adaptations of comic book characters/comic franchises/superheroes between the years of 1998-2020
For the book: Feeding Cultural Fear: Essays on Films During a Time of Transition, 1998-2020
I am looking for a completed chapter for an academic book that aims to examine the manifestation of collective societal fears in film. This collection will cover films specifically from the time period of 1998-2020. This collection is under contract with McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers and will be released in 2020.
Every four years, the Global Center for Religious Research (GCRR) must seek replacements for certain executive positions within the organization. We are now accepting applications for the following roles to help run the GCRR Academic Society:
Required Qualifications:
In partnership with Wipf and Stock Publishers, the peer-reviewed academic journal, Socio-Historical Examination of Religion and Ministry (SHERM journal), is now accepting article submissions from all qualified persons relating to any one of the following fields of study:
The Romanian Forum of the MLA invites proposals for presentations on its guaranteed panel at the 2021 Convention of the Modern Language Association (Toronto, January 7-10, 2021):
Eugène Ionesco’s Theater of Language
CALL FOR PAPERS
Spatial Modernities: Mapping the Physical and Psychological World Postgraduate Symposium
Centre for Modern Studies, University of York
16 May 2020
Keynote Speaker: Professor Ian Gregory (Lancaster University)
We would like to draw your attention to the call for applications for the 2020 UCSIA Summer School on ‘Religion, Culture and Society’. This summer school is a one-week course, organized by the University Center Saint-Ignatius Antwerp and taking place from Sunday 23 August 2020 until Sunday 30 August 2020 at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. This year the program focusses on the topic ‘Religion, Mobility and Politics’.
Messengers from the Stars:
On Science Fiction and Fantasy
No. 5, 2020
Edited by: Matthew Hill
Co-edited by: João Félix
Messengers from the Stars is an international, peer-reviewed journal, offering academic articles, reviews, and providing an outlet for a wide range of creative work inspired by science fiction and fantasy. The 2020 issue will be dedicated to the following theme:
Utopias, Dystopias, Ecotopias and Heterotopias
After many successful academic events in different cities worldwide, ISF 2020 is in Marrakesh. It will embrace a wide range of academic disciplines as podium and poster presentations. We welcome submissions in the following academia domains: 1. Communication studies, economics, management, marketing, business, business administration, statistics, econometrics, education, psychology, sociology; 2. Anthropology, archaeology, classics, history, linguistics and languages, law and politics, literature, geography, philosophy, religion, performing arts, visual arts, gender studies; and 3. Astronomy, agriculture, sport, biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics and all medical sciences.